INTERNATIONAL: 28 Billion Bill

Not
until last weekmore than ten years after the Warwas Germany
presented at Paris with a definite bill for reparations. The Dawes Plan
fixed the maximum annual charge which Germany may be called upon to
pay, but not the total sum. Last week at a plenary session of the
Second Dawes Committee (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) the creditor powers
presented Germany with a grand total reparations bill of
$28,000,000,000, payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany
roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich...